Google AppEngine

Read a couple of posts last week that coalesced some thoughts I’d been having into this one. First was the fascinating rumor about a Google EC2 clone. Hat tip to High Scalability Blog for putting me on to this one. The second was James Urquhart’s musings about the desirability of the Amazon API’s as a […]

SaaS purists like me ought to worry about a product like SaaSGrid Express, launched this week by .NET platform-as-a-service specialist Apprenda. Surely it’s the height of irresponsibility to disseminate a free, downloadable SaaS application platform? This gives the worst imaginable encouragement to hundreds if not thousands of unskilled, poorly resourced developers to set up the […]

What follows is something like a live blog, based on comments from Matthew Wall and Simon Willison from The Guardian the NoSQL EU conference in London today. Wall kicked off the talk with a question about NoSQL: is it a good name for the phenomenon? He says not really, pointing out absurdity of calling SQLite […]